They are working.Getting butt fucked by China buying their oil at 40% discounts isn't winning.
Russia & Ukraine
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They are working.Getting butt fucked by China buying their oil at 40% discounts isn't winning.
They will stop working under President Cornel West who wants to stop supporting Ukraine's counter offensive.
Better you start siding with Russia like most of the leftists.
Whats going on here:
UK not an Amazon delivery service for weapons to Ukraine, says defence secretary Ben Wallace
UK not an Amazon delivery service for weapons to Ukraine, says defence secretary Ben Wallace
Finally:
1. The International Olympic Committee will not invite official delegations of Russia and Belarus to participate in the Olympic Games in Paris, which will begin in July 2024.
2. Russian authorities have banned their athletes from participating in the Olympics under a neutral flag.
um. bah bye
1. The International Olympic Committee will not invite official delegations of Russia and Belarus to participate in the Olympic Games in Paris, which will begin in July 2024.
2. Russian authorities have banned their athletes from participating in the Olympics under a neutral flag.
um. bah bye
The Bushmaster!Australia is part of Five Eyes (FVEY), an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These countries are parties to the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence.
In spite of continued controversy over its methods, the Five Eyes relationship remains one of the most comprehensive known espionage alliances in human history.
Since processed intelligence is gathered from multiple sources, the intelligence shared is not restricted to signals intelligence and often involves defence intelligence as well as human intelligence and geospatial intelligence.
Albanese gives more Bushmasters to Ukraine
Hans van Leeuwen Europe correspondent Jul 12, 2023
https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-...s-more-bushmasters-to-ukraine-20230712-p5dntv
Vilnius | The government has unveiled a $100 million boost to its military aid to Ukraine, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pledging another 30 Bushmasters personally to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at a face-to-face meeting in Lithuania.
The fresh donation of protected mobility vehicles takes the total number of Bushmasters given to Ukraine’s military to 120, and the total value of Australian military aid to the beleaguered nation to more than $710 million.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at their meeting at NATO. Reuters
Making the announcement immediately after meeting Mr Zelensky on the sidelines of the NATO leaders’ summit in Vilnius, Mr Albanese said the Bendigo-made Bushmaster had become “a symbol for Australia’s support for Ukraine”.
“They are valued very much by Ukrainian defence force personnel. They have saved their lives just as in the past they have been responsible for saving Australian lives,” he told reporters.
“This is a piece of equipment that is the best in the world at what it does. ... It will make an enormous difference.”
The announcement came a day after Mr Albanese pledged an RAAF reconnaissance plane, the E-7A Wedgetail, to a six-month mission operating out of Ramstein air base in Germany.
During his European trip, Mr Albanese has been at pains to stress the connection between the war in Ukraine and the security interests of Australia and the wider world.
“In today’s interconnected world Ukraine is not just fighting for its own international sovereignty, it is fighting for the international rule of law to be applied and this is a struggle that applies to the whole world,” he said.
Australia would “continue to stand with Ukraine for as long as is necessary, and we will continue to provide support for Ukraine”.
Mr Zelensky, speaking to reporters alongside Mr Albanese just before their brief bilateral meeting, thanked Australia for standing “shoulder to shoulder” with Ukraine.
Mr Albanese told the Ukrainian he was “inspired by your leadership, the resilience of the Ukrainian people, the courage that you are showing”.
Some military experts have called for Australia to deploy the weapons-toting Hawkei military vehicles to Ukraine instead of more Bushmasters. Mr Albanese ruled this out, citing potential “supply chain issues”. He dismissed his critics as “people sitting in armchairs”.
“We want to make sure that we provide equipment that maximises the positive difference they can make,” he said.
The Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations issued a statement welcoming the announcement, saying the Bushmasters had “become justifiably famous in Ukraine”.
“Family members and friends we speak to in Ukraine all know about the Bushmasters and are deeply grateful that Australians want to help Ukraine restore peace and push back Russian aggression,” the statement said.
Australia in late June also offered an assortment of some 70 other military vehicles – 28 M113 armoured vehicles, 14 Special Operations Vehicles, and 28 MAN 40M medium trucks and 14 trailers – alongside a supply of 105mm ammunition. That package totalled $110 million......
Will Ukraine need to go down to to the local Kiev DMV and get tags for them before they can use them, or is that just an Aussie thing?
That's pretty cool. And to think, all the stuff that man did and saw, he ended up drowning on a fishing trip. Tragic, but I bet if we could have asked him, that would have been in his top 5 ways to go. I mean die on a fishing trip, or wither away in a bed with cancer? I'm going fishing.
Biden orders 3,000 reservists to be ready for Europe deployments
It’s not clear whether the troops will actually be deployed, but it suggests the U.S. military presence in Europe is under strain.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/13/biden-military-reservists-europe-deployment-00106271
It’s not clear whether the troops will actually be deployed, but it suggests the U.S. military presence in Europe is under strain.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/13/biden-military-reservists-europe-deployment-00106271
Oh no lie there. And he was asked, and that was his answer.
He had a lot of stress after the war but he had skills. He had been a biplane barnstormer before the war, (if you know that term or look up images) even before going to the Antarctic with Admiral Byrd. After the war, he moved himself and his family from Dunedin, NZ to Lake Wanaka in New Zealand. With his mechanical skills he had an outboard sales and repair place on the lake, and with his stunt pilot skills he applied that to running a couple float planes for fishing trips. 100% committed to fishing until he died. He liked adventure but had enough of war and returned to a peaceful area as soon as he got a chance. If it took a couple nukes on Japan to speed the process up a bit, well, that was fine. Sooner the better. They were offered a chance to surrender, which was the view at the time and it would have- it was estimated- cost a 100,000 soldiers- to take Japan by invasion.
Ok. Admittedly I digressed a little and will return to Russia and Ukraine per the thread.
Lake Wanaka - New Zealand
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Did you happen to notice dead center of that graphic .... that Russian fossil fuel export revenues have declined by 60 friggen % lol? Huh? And revenue overall from exports to the EU by 90 friggen %? Huh, huh?
Noice that China and India are getting a 40 friggen % discount.
Not noice for the Puuuuuuuutin mafia.
If you've never read it.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusions_(Bach_novel) .... read it. It would be his favorite book.
